My Atomic Odyssey

In 1951, Marvin Goldman began his career working at the Nevada Test Site on the Buster-Jangle Series to determine the inhalation hazards from fallout of nuclear weapons tests. That same year, he detected the first “hot particle” of plutonium in lung tissue. Join your OLLI classmates for an insider’s look at this seven-decade scientific journey from the end of the Manhattan Project through atom bombs, nuclear medicine and radiation effects at UC Davis, Chernobyl, Siberia and into the exploration of space and currently, the planet Mars.